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Most Profitable Cattle to Feed.

Yearlings that are we'll grown and
s-year-olds are the most profitable cattle
to buy for feeding. These may weigh
400 to 500 pounds for the first, and 700
to 800 pounds for the latter, if they
have been kept well, or one-fourth less
if otherwise. By feeding such as these
more weight can be put on them than
upon older cattle. Well-kept youngsters
can be made to gain one pound day
from now until the same time next year.
Yearlings weighing $50 to 400 pounds
may do better, weighing 500 pounds
after years feeding. A farmer who
goes into business of feeding purchased
stock should have few hundred bushels
of turnips and feed yearling peck of
them sliced and busted with bran and
salt every day, with two quarts of corn
meal, and all the good hay he will
eat. A shed so feet by 20, divided into
20 pens by feet each, holding two
animals, will accommodate 40 head Of
yearling steers. By removing the horns
the animals will not quarrel and will do
much better.-New York Times.
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Prohibition in Kansas.

Here in Kansas after Prohibition was
adopted as long as officers neglected to per-.
form their duties and suffered dram-shops to
continue in business, there were speakers,
writers and singers who insisted upon revers-
sing thn ngs and going back to the old dram
shop act, because, they said: ut is impossi-
bic to enforce the law" Three years ago at
least fifty new spapers in Kansas were abus-
ing the prohibition law and pleading the
cause of tie rum-sellers But the law is en-
forced, and not one paper in Kansas now ad-
vocates the re establishment of the grog-
shop. Here in this beaut full city of Topeka
the law conquered it step by step, and this
fine morning finds us with bona fde popu-
lation of nearly 50, 900 people-twice as many
as we had three years ago-busineSS Is brisk,
streets are being paved, building is in prog
ress, railroad construction extending, the
people all busy, happy and hopeful, with
prospect ahead most encouraging, and not
man, not q woman, not q paper advocating
the rum vender's business. We get along
we'll without licensing dram-selling. We have
q clear, sober, prosperous city that all Of us
are proud of, and nothing has helped lis more
than our banishment Of the saloon. Topeka
CuDituL.
The Maine Plan the Best,
The British Medical Press and Circular
comments as follows upon the modern fashion
in Great Britain of honoring brewers and of
making baronets of them: while the tenn
perance cause is claimed to have been making
great advances of late years, governments
no matter what their particular political
views, have shown themselves extremely
and to our mind unduly, generous in confer
ring honors on the princely representatives
of the drnk-traflic. There is hardly name
which has become familiar from seeing it Oh
bottles and casks, but is now embellished by
the addition of title of some sort, though l.
is difficult to see on what grounds" Th'
Maine plan of putting the brewers in prison
is great Improvement upon the prevalent
British usage of comforting titles upon them
National Temperance Adrocate.
Dr.. Talmagc Not Much Dismayed.
Editor The Voice:-If the Supreme Court
decides against us, the liquor traffic will find
that it has secured one victory too many.
That victory will arouse the nation. 1t will
be the death-knen of the liquor power.
f. De WITT TALMAGE.
BROOKLYN, October %, 1887.
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The West Grove Penn,l Independent says:
"Less liquor, less crime; less crime, less law;
less law, fewer court officials; fewer court
officials, lower taxation; lower taxation,
more prosperity"
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TEMPERANCE.
Thanksgiving Day.


Our grateful songs in rapture rise
For blessings from propitious skies,
And mercies daily granted here
Where plenty's star-lit banner flies.
10, when we dreamed cloud was near,
A bow spanned the bright hemispherel
For bread the toilers need not lack
If at the plough he looks not back
And winnows from his Thoughts the tares.
He'll find the shekels in his sack.
And the ''love-cup' the favored shares
From hands of angels unawares.
From teaming fields bronzed labor tills
Our vaults and bins and barhS are filled,
And we are taught to toll and trust.
Our gifts have been like rain distilled
Upon the unjust and the just"
Bringing the fruitage from the dust.
The Benjamin of nations born,
Our sacks are filled with golden. corn,
Food fit for continents of kings.
With faces sad and garments torn,
We bow not here; our homage brings
Us to the Cross, where Mercy clings.
We best can show our grateful zeal
By striving for our brothers veal,
Healing the wounded heart that bleeds,
And BY our labors show we feel
AntGher's woes and heed his needs.
Cool thoughts are blest when coined IN
deeds.
Geoyoe w. Bun1auin TEMPERANCE Advocate.
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Cougars, near Idaho City, Idaho, have
destroyed number of young colts lately.
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Heaven is to have new song, an entirely
new song, but l should not wonder if, As
sometimes on earth tune is fashioned out Of
many tunes, or it is one tune with the varia-
ations, so some Of the songs Of the redeemed
may have playing through them the songs Of
earth, and how thrilling as coming through
the great anthem of the saved, accompanied
by harperS with their harps. and trumnnters
with their trumpets we should hear some OF
the strains Of Antioch, and Mount Plsgah,
and Coronation, and LenoX, and St Martins,
and Fountain, and Ariel and Old Hundred
How they would bring to mind the praying
circles, and communion days, and the Christ
mas festivals. and the church worship in
which on earth we mingled! have no idea
that when we bid farewell to earth we are to
bid farewell to all these grand old Gospel
hymns which melted and raptured our souls
for so many years Now, my friends, if sin
is discord and Righteousness is harmony, let
US get out of the one and enter the other.
After our dreadful civil war was over, and in
tho summer of 1862 a great national peace
Jubilee was held in Boston, and as an elder of
this church had been honored by the selec-
ton of some of his music, to be rendered on
that occasion, l accompanied him to the
Jubilee. Forty thousand people sat and stood
in the great Coliseum erected for that pu:-
pose, Thousands of wind and Stringed in
struments. Twelve thousand trained voices.
The masterpieces of all ages rendered, hour
after hour. and day after day Handels
"Judas Maccabspus," Spohr's Last Judg.
ment," Beethoven's mount of Olives"
Haydn's s'Creation," "Mendelssohn's ELI.
iah,' Meyerbeer's Coronation March," roll
ing on and up in surges that billowed against
the heavens. The mighty cadence within
were accompanied on the outside by the
ringing of the bells of the city and cannon
on the commons, in exact time with the mu-
sic discharged by electricity, laundering
their awful bars Of harmony that astounded
all nations.
Sometimes bowed my head and wept.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-02-05
New York World.

Since the remarkable result il
the late municipal election it ha
been a matter of curious specula
ton among practical politicians a
well as with students of politica
forces as to what proportion of tn,
democratic vote of Henry Georg,
for mayor would have been giver
Mr.. Cleveland had he been a can
didate for president at the sam,
election. This speculation has it:
origin, doubtless, in the possibili
ties of the labor vote in the mex,
presidential election.
Mr.. George polled a vote in this
city of about $4,000. OF this it il
probable that two-thirds, or As, 400
was drawn from the democratic
party-mature voters who had act
ed with the democratic party o,
new voters who, except for Mr..
Georges candidacy, would have
voted for Mr.. Hewitt, the demo
cratic candidate.
Chairman McMacken, of the com
mittee having in charge the entire
canvass for Mr.. George, was asked
the question: Had Mr. Cleveland
been candidate for president at
the time Mr.. George was in the
field, what percentage of the $4,000
votes cast for George would have
gone for Cleveland?" The answer
was given in Mr.. McMacken's most
emphatic Scotch accent: Mighty
little, | tell you. "How much in
actual figures?" $50 little that il
would hardly be worth mentioning.
Vote for Cleveland! Why, his be
ing was the reason for our being.
What has he done for the working
man that the workingman should
do anything for him? For years
we waited for something like fair
play from the republican party.
We did not get it, as all the world
knows, but we were promised big
things from the democratic party,
and we waited very impatiently, i
can assure you. We lifted Cleve-
land into the presidential chair and
waited again. What did we get?
Nothing; and this it was that
brought us to the front as a party,
and we intend to remain, as a per-
petual reminder to the old parties
and their leaders that we have no
faith in them. Vote for Cleveland
and at the same time vote for
George! Why, it is like trying to
mix oil and water. We have moth
ing in sympathy with Cleveland
nor his methods, and our vote for
him would be as small as We could |
possibly make it,"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-02-05

remember the first time 6
man ever went into the lions cage, ,
said Eaton Stone, the veteran cir
Gus rider. "It was back in '2S-
before Van Amburg's time. 1t was
down in New Orleans. His name
was Lane, and he had charge of a
lion and lioness named Ajax and
Nance. One day Ajax took sick
and Lane determined to go into
the cage and physic and nurse him,
satisfied that the lion was too sick
to do him much injury should he
seek to attack him. Ajax showed
such an appreciation of his kind
ness that he insisted on licking
Lanes hand with his tongue and
rubbing his head against his knees.
| forgot to say that before going
into the cage Lane had Nance par
titioned off in one end of the cage.
While she seemed to understand
what Lane was doing for her mate
and appreciated the kindness as
highly as he did, Nance would try
to get Lane to let her lick his hand
and paw him, and one day he de-
cided to go into the cage without
shutting her off to herself. AS he
expected she was as affectionate as
she could be, and joined Ajax in
his demonstrations of kindness and
affection. When Ajax recovered
Lane announced that he would go
into the lions den, but the public
was afraid to come to the show.
The announcement of Daniel in
the lions den, religious exempli-
fication,' did not take, and there
was no such lithographing and pic
torial work done in those DAYS.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-02-05
ANOTHER incident of Moltke and

ANOTHER incident of Moltke and
Bismarck comes to hand. At 10
niggratz, while the result was yet
in doubt, the statesman approached
the warrior to ask him his opinion
of the battle. He found him Sit
ting silent on his black horse, and
hesitated to disturb his medita-
tions. Presently, without a word,
he offered him his cigar case.
There were two cigars in it. ore
good, the other rather poor. Tie
illustrious marshal, still silent,
took it, inspected the contents,
chose the better cigar, returned the
poor one with the case, and re-
mained as silent as before, while
the statesman turned away with
his question unasked and unan-
swered,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-02-05

When the next war breaks out
we will learn the result of the dill
gent secret experimentation in ex.
plosives ,torpedoes, dynamite bombs
and nitroglycerine guns that has
been going on for several years past
in the armories and laboratories OF
Europe. The French have been
particularly active in this business.
They want to kill their neighbors,
the Germans, not by platoons, but
by regiments and brigades, and
hints are heard, now and then, of
terrible new agents of havoc Gen.
Boulanger has at his command.
Even in this country a safe and
effective air-gun for throwing dyna-
mite and nytroglycerine bombs has
been invented, and we are delight
fully assured that shell contain
ing one hundred pounds of the
amiable compound now called in
trogelatine, fired not at it nor into,
but in the air over a hostile army,
would kill or disable every man
and horse within a quarter of
mile of the point of explosion.
This would not be war, as we un-
derstand the term; it would be
destruction; and it is not surpris-
ing to learn that our army officers
are opposed to the introduction of
air-guns, and all the new chemical
explosives, on the ground of bar
barity. They have a warm affec-
ton for the familiar old friend Of
gunpowder. 1t is associated in
their minds with stirring, patriotic
history, long sieges, strategy, field
and the general art Of
war, to say nothing of promotions
and increased pay. There would
be no military art in dynamite.
Warfare with it would be unscien-
tific and awful slaugher.
And yet there is one merit in
these improved agents of destruc-
ton. They are so terrible that hu-
man nature could not stand them
and they would force govern
ments to abandon war entirely and
seek some gentler and more sensi-
bic method for the arbitrament Of
disputes. Nitroglycerine may prove
= despotic peacemaker, after all.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-02-05

Cardiff Weekly Mail.

| AHc HIsI pASScnSer Trains passed
through the gigantic tube linkinr
the shores of Monmouthshire al d
Worcestershire on Wednesday
morning. Before those on board
quite knew where they were a shrill
whistle, sudden darkening-for it
was now nearly broad daylight
and "We are in !" told them they
we're in" and rushing down
clearly percepible decline towards
point a hundred feet below the
bed of the broad estuary. In u
trice watches were out and win
dows down-the first to keep time,
the other to test the ventilation.
The in-rush of the ice-cold air, as
clean and pure as if the trip across
was being made in the old way
over instead of under the channel
showed the latter was all right.
The submarine journey, if such it
may be called, proved to be more
like a run through a pretty deep
cutting than through tunnel four
and a quarter miles long. For
about three minutes and a half af-
ter entering there was no mistaking
the fact that sharp gradient was
being descended, then momentarv
rumble as the train passed over the
curve of the arc-for the tube dips
in the center-and the locomotive,
ut an ever-decreasing speed, climbed
the opposite gradient, to emerge
once more into daylight in eight
minutes and forty-nine seconds.
AS before remarked, the ventila-
ton of the tunnel is little short of
perfect. During the construction
of the work a fan eighteen feet i'm
diameter, discharging 10000 cubic
feet of air per minute, was used.
This has now been replaced by a
fan forty feet in diameter and
twelve feet wide, made on the same
principles as those used at the Mer-
sey and portion of the Metropoli-
tan tunnels. The tunnel is twenty
six feet wide and twenty feet high
from the double line of rails to the
crown of the arch inside the brick
work. The rails are laid on longi-
tudinal sleepers. The tunnel has
been lined throughout with vitrified
bricks set in cement, and no less
than 100000 bricks have been
used in this work. This vitrified
brick wall has a thickness of three
eet In the crown of the arch be-
heath the " shoots" but as the tun-
lel rises from this lowest point on
gradient one in ninety one way
md one in 100 toward the Glouces-
ershire side this thickness is grad
tally reduced to two feet three
nches.
The total length of the Severn
unnel is four miles 624 yard. The
st. GOthard tunnel is 81 miles Mt.
Jenis tunnel, u miles; Arlberg
unnel (Austria), 81 miles; there
S a tunnel in Massachusetts, A.
niles; the Standage tunnel. on the
london & Northwestern, 3 miles
ong, and the Box tunnel rather
ess. But the special feature of tie
severn tunnel lies in the fact that
J miles of it have been constructed
rom 45 to 100 feet below the bed
f a rapidly flowing tidal estuary,
ffering engineering difficulties
'hich make it the most remarkable
unnel in the world.
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once when we reached the house
and her brother followed suit befor
long; but first he invited me yer,
cordially to visit them the next day
And then, when had finished sup
per and smoked a cigar, too wen
off to bed.
1.-THE porter was hammering a
the door, and it was broad daylight
when / woke up. I turned ovel
and yawned and then l noticed thu
door was ajar. was out of bed in
an instant. The key was still ir
the keyhole but it had been turned
/ peeped out, but the porter had
gone and the entry was empty
Then | trod on my pocketbook-
and that was empty, too. And my
watch was missing, and my dia-
mond pin and gold pencil case.
Even my sleeve buttons had disap-
peared, and my cuffs lay on the floor.
II was a pretty angry man, you
may believe, but took up my boots,
sure, at all events, of that roll of
bills | had hidden so cleverly. NV
young friend, those boots were
empty too. l had been completely
cleaned out.
Well, | hunted up the landlord,
and a detective was sent for. 1t
was quite evident that the thief had
turned my key with nippers, and
known his business well. The ques-
ton was if he was still in the house,
and if others had suffered as we'll
as l. And that made me think of
my little friend and her $5O-and
then very ugly thought struck me !:
=" How could the thief have sus-
pected that l had money in my
boot?
st was particularly ugly and
mortifying thought that l could
hardly bring myself to breathe it.
Still, | did, at last, and the detect
i've walked away without another
word. And soon l learned that the
lady and gentleman had left the
house at o'clock-it was then
nearly 1O-and were not known in
the town, and had been seen at the
railroad depot. Then. young man,
| knew myself for an idiot of the
first water, and grew very sad, in
deed, and went and wired my house
for more shekels. Yes, the whole
affair was a plant. Do you know
what that is? The fellow was
professional thief and the girl was
MS accomplice.
"The man was caught a week
after in Scranton. and | recovered
ny watch and pin and remembered
hen that he stood beside ne a mo-
nent at the ticket office at Wilkes
)arre. But the girl escaped in some
way, and where my money went l
never heard. l was kept decidedly
ow in funds for some months after
hat, can tell you.
And now, perhaps, you under
tand why that interesting young
ady left us SO suddenly at New
'urg. 1t was the first time she had
cen me since that evening. And,
fter all, perhaps it's just as well
or you that happened across you
his trip. eh ?"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-02-05

In London not long since, 4
sanity individual tried to offer up
prayer at meeting Of his creditors.
Among the latter was a rough
Scotchman, who, amazed at the
GOODNESS of the act, shouted, "Sit
doom, We rascally heepocreet If
We say anither wurd to the Almighty
in my presence, dom me if dinna
kick ye," etc. The creditors roared,
the petitioner sat down, and the
business of the meeting proceeded.
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business basis alone can the bes
results be secured, and that it j.
practically impossible to succeed
until this truth has become the END
and aim of every plan and effort
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A BOY can walk four miles to GO
skating, and drag some other boys
sister on his eled all the way, but
when his mother wants him to bring
a bag of crackers from the grocery
he tells her that his kidneys are 40
weak that he don't dare to do it.
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The KEYSTONE has long been acknowi-
edged to be the sole representative of the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtooth
mining regions, and, located as it is in the
very heart of the most promising mining
country on the face of the earth, and leaS-
ing nothing undone to present its readers q
complete synopsis Of all mining news sA1
Importance in the growth of Ketchum. tho
future metropolis OF Idaho, il is an invalua-
bic guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position. SUBJ
scribe for it, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-02-05

A HARVARD professor has made
the calculation that if men were
really as big as they sometimes feel
there would be room in the United
States for only two professors,
three lawyers, two doctors, and a
reporter on a Philadelphia paper.
The rest of us would be crowded
into the sea and have to swim for it.
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"Pa, have you got hydrophobia?'
I" No, BERTHE; what makes you ak
that question:" well, l heard ms
say that you got awfully bitten when i
you thought she had Z fortuhe-in |
her own name."
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-02-05

FAITH is sometimes represented
by the figure of a drenched female
clinging to q sea-washed rock but
a better personi6cation would be a
bald-headed man buying q bottle of
patent hair restorer.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-02-05

De Garmo-And how do you
stand on evolution, Miss Brewster?
Don't you believe that man de.
scended from the monkey?
Miss Brewster-Oh, yes, l think
man is, but what puzzles me is,
where women came from.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-02-05

One of the peculiar things in this
life is that q woman's shoes never
fit her unless they are too small.
Another is, that mans never fit
him unless they are too large.
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THERE are 25,81O doctors in Great

THERE are 5,8IO doctors in Great
Britain, or one for every 1850 in
habitants. In France the proper
ton is one for / 400; in. Austria,
Germany and Norway, one for
every 800; in the United States,
one for every 600, while in Russia
there is only one for 1925.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-22
"a DRAMATIC SCENE. /.
IN A PHILADELPHIA COURT.
McCnrty, tho Higami0t, Confronted by his
legal Wife, whom he Disowns-Sey.
ertheless he Is lIplh to Await n Hsaui.
sitlon from the Ohio Authorities.

Special Dispa.eh 10 tht hlte!lige.eer.
PnlLADRLrnIA, June 2l.-There was {
dramatic scene at tho Central Police Sta
ton this afternoon when Frank McCarty
tho alleged bigamiat and fugitive from
Justice was brought face to face with The
woman ho calla Mollie Miller, who claimt
him as her husband, and Miss Ella Vance
the Wheeling girl with whom he eloped
laat May, and tho latter's father. = c
At the suggestion Of the magistrate
Mollie Miller stepped to the stand and
pointing to the prisoner in the dock said,
"Yes, that man Is my husband" -'
"Do you recognize this womsn," asked
the Judge. ' z'f5 81 '&G-17I''
II d." began McCarty, but he was at
once interrupted by his counsel, LAWYER
Burns, who advised him to say nothing
more. l@g .I., III, I
Chiet Of Detectives Wood explained that
the Ohio authorities with the aid Of the
District Attorney Of Wheeling we're pre-.
pairing the necessary regulation papers.
Ho offered telegram from Father Bailey,
OF Baltimore, certifying TO the marriage
Of McCsrty and Mollie Miller on Noyem.
Der 10, 1888. The Judge then remanded
the prisoner to await the action Of the
Ohio authorities. s,30EE}]a.,
After the hearing Mollie Miller and
Mics Vance spoke to each othor in the
Chiefs room. The former insisted that
ahe was McCarty's wife and asked Miss
Vance II she did not know that. mo, I
did not, nor do l know it now" was the
reply. -H,1 .is ll.954
Mlsa Vance was greatly overcome when
she left ior Wheeling during the after.
noon in company with her father, and her
lover WAS sent to a prison cell. aE